Words. [public post, uni, linguistics, meta]

[naatz]

What's in a word

Comments

[lothar_]

I call that a "fishbowl exercise" where the point is to get people to realize that they can't really define things that they're inextricably tied to. Those are fun.

[naatz]

Kind of frustrating, though.

|Meduza|

[ciroccoj]

OK, not actually connected to the Word question, but there's a vaguely-linguistically-related question being posed over at grammargasm you might find interesting:

http://community.livejournal.com/grammargasm/326611.html

[naatz]

Thanks! Very interesting. :)

|Meduza|